The Chargers are now 8-5 after a close 19-17 loss to the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football.
Here are five takeaways from Week 14.
1. Bolts proud of resolve on road
The Chargers will not win the AFC West in Jim Harbaugh’s first season at the helm.
But the Bolts once again showed Sunday night that they can go toe-to-toe with anyone in the NFL. And that their time might be coming soon.
Down 13-0 at halftime, it would have been easy for Harbaugh’s squad to pack it in on the road at Arrowhead. Instead, they showed plenty of mettle and toughness in a last-second loss.
“This one hurts,” Harbaugh said. “We’ll lay down and bleed for a little while, not long. Then we’ll rise and fight again.”
Justin Herbert added: “It’s always a tough game. For those guys to stick in there and battle, it didn’t go our way at the end, but I have a lot of appreciation for those guys sticking and fighting and do everything they can for all four quarters.”
On a night where the Chiefs claimed their ninth straight division crown, the Chargers couldn’t put together a complete game in all three phases.
The defense was strong early but had some lapses, including in the final few minutes of regulation.
The offense sputtered in the first half but roared to life in the third quarter.
But the end result was a familiar one, a narrow loss to a team that has won the last two Super Bowls.
“Heck yeah, it’s frustrating,” Derwin James, Jr. said. “Losing on the last drive is frustrating and I’m tired of doing it, too, man. Honestly.”
Elijah Molden added: “There’s no such thing as ‘almost.'”
Khalil Mack added: “It’s a high level of frustration, but we got to use it. We got to keep using it and learning from it. We got another four games or so, we can’t let one loss turn into two. We got to learn from this and get better for the next one.”
At 8-5, the Chargers now reside in the No. 6 seed in the…
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at News…